Socialist event labels Trump a ‘rapist,’ calls for free abortions

The International Socialist Organization at Syracuse University recently hosted a guest speaker who labeled President Trump as a "rapist" and the "sexist-in-chief," while calling for free abortions.

The speaker, Socialist Worker's Natalia Tylim, also touched on the issue of abortion, saying that she believes pro-life women cannot be feminists.

Syracuse University’s chapter of the International Socialist Organization recently hosted an event that called for free abortions and labeled President Trump a “rapist.”

The March 21 event, titled “#MeToo: Building the Movement for Women’s Liberation,” was held as part of the International Socialist Organization’s 2018 Socialism Tour, which brings “dozens of socialist activists to cities and towns across the country to speak on some of today's most important political questions in the lead-up to this year’s Socialism Conference in Chicago.”

“This is also why I don’t believe you can be a feminist if you don’t believe in abortion."

Natalia Tylim, a contributor for Socialist Worker, was the event’s invited guest, speaking in front of a backdrop adorned with a caption of “Abortion Should Be Free & Legal: Keep Your Laws Off Our Bodies.”

“The Women’s March obviously wasn’t just confined to questions of women’s oppression, but it was in no small part driven by anger at the sexist-in-chief and this rapist who is now president,” Tylim remarked during the beginning of her presentation, later proclaiming that people who are pro-life can’t be “a feminist.”

“This is also why I don’t believe you can be a feminist if you don’t believe in abortion, because if you don’t think a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body when it comes to sexual advances, refusing unwanted sexual advances, carrying a fetus in her womb, or anything else that pertains to her own life and her livelihood, then I think it’s not a real vision of full liberation,” she stated.

Tylim went on to praise the students for their clinic-defense activism, which consists of protests that seek to counter pro-life activism, claiming that “the clinics actually really have become a battleground for the right where they try to intimidate us from having access to our own healthcare services.”

Marissa Gentry is an Indiana Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse for Campus Reform. She studies Environmental Science and Policy at Northeastern University and is involved in Young Americans for Liberty and Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

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